Burma: A Strategy for Change: Implementing the Responsibility to Protect Seminar

Dr Guy Horton (SOAS)

Date: 2 February 2010

Time: 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Venue: Russell Square: College BuildingsRoom: G52

The talk will be in three parts:

  1. Reviewing the evidence of systematic and widespread human rights violations.

  2. Reviewing the authoritative conceptualisation of these as crimes against humanity by the Goldstone Commission (May 2009).

  3. Examine why and how the Responsibility to Protect can be triggered and which parts of can and should be implemented.

Biography

Guy Horton has worked on the issue of Burma since 1998 when he was asked by the Euro-Burma Office to go on a mission on the tenth anniversary of the 1988 uprising to make contact with corralled MP’s.

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